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Lombardy elected its eighth delegation to the Italian Senate on June 3, 1979. This election was a part of national Italian general election of 1979 even if, according to the Italian Constitution, every senatorial challenge in each Region is a single and independent race.
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The election was won by the centrist Christian Democracy, as it happened at national level. Seven Lombard provinces gave a majority or at least a plurality to the winning party, while the agricultural Province of Pavia and Province of Mantua preferred the Italian Communist Party.
For the first time the Italian Communist Party lost votes, after a period of terroristic attacks by the Red Brigades. Even the far-right Italian Social Movement was weakened. Between other minor parties, the Radical Party obtained its first seat.
The electoral system for the Senate was a strange hybrid which established a form of proportional representation into FPTP-like constituencies. A candidate needed a landslide victory of more than 65% of votes to obtain a direct mandate. All constituencies where this result was not reached entered into an at-large calculation based upon the D'Hondt method to distribute the seats between the parties, and candidates with the best percentages of suffrages inside their party list were elected.
| Party | votes | votes (%) | seats | swing |
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| Christian Democracy | 2,117,789 | 40.7 | 21 | = |
| Italian Communist Party | 1,530,781 | 29.4 | 15 |  1 |
| Italian Socialist Party | 620,900 | 11.9 | 6 | = |
| Italian Democratic Socialist Party | 217,704 | 4.2 | 2 |  1 |
| Italian Social Movement | 186,412 | 3.6 | 1 | 1 |
| Italian Republican Party | 162,090 | 3.1 | 1 | = |
| Italian Liberal Party | 156,745 | 3.0 | 1 | = |
| Radical Party | 154,257 | 3.0 | 1 | 1 |
| Others | 63,291 | 1.2 | - | = |
| Total parties | 5,209,969 | 100.0 | 48 | = |
Sources: Italian Ministry of the Interior
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